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The Convergence Of The Phone And Laptop
Fred Wilson – Feb 17, 2019
The Gotham Gal wanted to get a new laptop. Her late 2015 Macbook has started to fade on her. So yesterday we made a visit to the local Apple Store and checked out the options. We looked at the Macbooks, [...] Read more
Losing your voice at the most inconvenient times
Bethany Crystal – Feb 17, 2019
I’ve only lost my voice twice in my life. But it always seems to happen at the most inconvenient times. Since on the edge of losing my voice for the third time in my life, it’s making me think back [...] Read more
Audio Of The Week: Reimagining The Well Woman
Fred Wilson – Feb 16, 2019
One of the areas we have been investing a lot in at USV is women’s healthcare (Clue , Modern Fertility , Nurx ). Another interesting company in women’s healthcare, that USV is not an investor in (at least not yet), [...] Read more
The trouble with being sick
Bethany Crystal – Feb 16, 2019
The trouble with being sick is that you can’t get anything done. You can’t go outside. (It’s far too cold.) You can’t go out to eat. (Who knows how it’ll affect your stomach?) You can’t make friends at a bar. [...] Read more
Come for an Action, Stay for the Community
Rebecca Kaden – Feb 15, 2019
The next wave of social systems will likely emphasize breadth and depth differently than the last--and may not look much like social networks at all. With the current networks, the horizontal nature of the platform is the product. Users come for the community. But it may be that with the next, the community is what keeps users long term engaged but is formed around another intent. Come for an action, stay for the community. Read more
The Amazon Backlash
Fred Wilson – Feb 14, 2019
NY State Senator Michael Gianaris is leading the efforts to stop Amazon from opening up a large presence in the borough of Queens in NYC. I get that this makes for good politics at some level. Standing up for the [...] Read more
Nobody likes you
Bethany Crystal – Feb 14, 2019
Nobody texted me back. I checked back to my initial texts: One sent at 11:40 a.m. The next sent at 12:59 p.m. The third at 1:41 p.m. The message in each was exactly the same: “Hey, I’d love to see [...] Read more
The Seed Slump
Fred Wilson – Feb 13, 2019
I have written a bit about this topic in recent years, at the end of 2017 , and again when the 2018 numbers started showing up . What has happened over the last five years in venture capital is the [...] Read more
Who anoints you with decision-making power?
Bethany Crystal – Feb 13, 2019
Yesterday was the monthly meeting of a “boss book club” that I’m a part of. (For reference, this is not a book club comprised of “bosses.” It’s more like an analysis on the workplace term “boss,” in which some ladies [...] Read more